help to restore to economics the breadth of purpose and methods it had two centuries ago, when happiness was considered the …

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects … beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.10 standard deviations of …

have positive effects on other measures of well-being, including social and overall happiness in school, time allocated for …

satisfaction and Cantril's ladder) imply tradeoffs closer to choice than does affective happiness (even time-integrated), and as …

unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are … measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … correlations between life and health satisfaction and health measures shows that happiness (or self-reported health) measures … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita …

of happiness. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), we examine whether households who contribute to a … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for …